I decided to have him come back out after several friends also recommended the ceramic and swear by its ability to make the car so much easier to clean up.

It's impressive stuff for sure. The installer cleaned the car, did a quick paint correction to insure no swirls or imperfections were sealed in, and installed the ceramic. The car had a decent shine to it before, but it was crazy watching it buff to a very high gloss like a just waxed vehicle has. It's super slick to the touch and water just falls off. Went right over the stripes, Xpel PPF, and trim. I asked him the difference between the pro stuff and the consumer, and he said the consumer version is a heavily "watered down" product. The pro stuff can flash cure if it hits any water spots, and if you don't buff it properly will harden and leave marks that take a high level of polishing with a cutting compound to correct, and sometimes even wet sanding if bad enough and the companies producing it don't want the liability so to get the pro stuff you have to go through training and get accredited. Sounds reasonable to me, but just repeating what he told me. He did hit a small water spot by the back bumper where water hid under the panel lip. He did get out his polisher to correct it and reapply a bit of product.

I have an 07 Charger SRT8 with a clunking noise in the rear when I take off from a dead stop. The noise intensifies the more throttle it has. Only way around it is to easy the throttle of the line. Runs n drives fine for a while but then it starts vibrating really bad sometimes. My guess is diff mount?? Can anyone help.

If you want to have this done, here are things I learned that make it much more invisible:

1. Machine Cut Templates ONLY - matches the car and you don't have someone trying to cut the material on the car to match

2. Wrapped edges (more protection and hides the edge)

3. No 3M. I'm told 3M has an orange peel look to it and is real thick which makes the line more visible

4. Make sure they know what they're doing on any trimming - my guy never actually cut the material, he used a scoring technique that allowed the material to break along an edge so scratching the paint was never a risk.

I'm probably gonna have him come back and do a GTECHNIQ ceramic coating on the car. He told me a little about it while he was at the shop, and I did some reading. It'll bond with the paint and lasts 7 or so years, no waxing, no bird poop damage, and you can practically hose it off to get it clean it's so slick.

The material is installed in this picture:

I have Andy working up a BOM, but was curious about any ideas anyone here has. It is amazing haw much difference the car feels at 180+ without the splitter and bellypan. The extra air under the car is not good.

I'm running the sequential light kit from web electric. Would this create an issue for LED lights? I've got one bulb burned out and thought I'd replace them all with LED if I can.
2009 R/T Challenger.

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So I thought I would spruce it it up a bit....

Better but still lacked something. So, I added some bling.

Then I thought some half covers would be nice with a custom insert....

Kinda plain so I painted them.

So now I am back to the big cover and had a buddy air brush it and update the color.

Even it's "designated" for another brand car, I can always buy the center medallion separately.

Athough I had degreased and cleaned the engine bay, it was far from "to be proud of".

So Today I got down to loosening a moving a few parts under the hood in order to scub the painted areas, wax, and touch-up scratches where they were. Also, removed the black plastic strut covers to clean, prime, and paint body color too.

Jordan Speith was holding off Karl S, pretty well.....

So, I decided to remove the top of the air box and pull the coolant reservoir too. With the final intention to degrease it, and add a couple of light coats of the body color - masking a strip on the side to read the coolant level.

***Boy am I glad I did!

Although, the coolant itself looked fine, there was a lot of glump stuck on the sides, and sediment on the bottom of the tank. I used a detergant, let it sit a while, then flused out completely for 5 minutes.

I kept a sample to show my fav service tech when I get there next.

Done!!